MN Lisa’s Comments (group member since Sep 23, 2021)

MN Lisa’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Sorry if this was asked and answered. When it comes to round 2, can we use items we found in books read in round 1? For example, we find vinegar 3 times in a round 1 book, but we only use two of those in round 1. Can we use the 3rd instance of Vinegar in round 2?

Hayley wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Susan A wrote: "I think we everything to make a monthly special now!"

I only found 5 of the 6 needed. Did I miss something? I found chicken, spices,..."

I think the harder to find ones we might want to list multiple times but based on the books we have done already I don't think we will be hurting for ingredients

I'm going to sort by Available and then Remaining and start using those ingredients with books over 300 pages.

The over 500 page books I'm going to concentrate on the drinks and desserts we find and use ingredients if we can't fill the other items. My 500 Page book should have about 10 drinks/desserts, outside of coffee and tea.

Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "Susan A wrote: "I think we everything to make a monthly special now!"

I only found 5 of the 6 needed. Did I miss something? I found chicken, spices, rice, chili, tomato...."


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I get it now. I have added it with 6 ingredients. When I googled it said potato so I added that. We can add more if we want to that or make another special. The book i'm reading now for sure has chicken and rice and we already have lots of spices we can use specifically instead of generic "spices"

Susan A wrote: "I think we everything to make a monthly special now!"

I only found 5 of the 6 needed. Did I miss something? I found chicken, spices, rice, chili, tomato....

Vian wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "You've played this before?"

Yes, I played it the last time they did this challenge."

Oh Great. You can let us know if we are doing things wrong. :) Most of us have never played before so we are kinda winging it right now.

Vian wrote: "Sorry, I'm a little bit late. I'm at Dragon Con this weekend so I won't have much reading time till Tuesday.

I'm tracking ingredients in a notepad I have dedicated to the challenge. I just mark do..."

You've played this before?

OK.

I looked at what we had and we had enough for Fish and Chips, so I filled out that meal and shop front in the planning spreadsheet.

I think I did that right, so take a look when you get some time. I'll highlight the items used in red to indicate they have been used.

Ok. I updated the books I have so far and removed the desserts and anything not coffee or tea from them.

I do have an almost 600 page book coming up and I know its got a few desserts and drinks in it. I'll concentrate on those when I get to that. I also think is has Fish and Chips in it, but not sure.

Not sure either on the spices, but spices is used in their example of curry, so I think we can use generic "spices" when making curry?

Susan A wrote: "MN Lisa wrote: "I'm going through and finding the meals in the book I'm reading. he describes them nicely.

chicken tortilla soup topped with diced avocado, shredded monterey jack cheese, a sprink..."

Yeah. I just checked and its 3 ingredients towards something.

This book is super short, but has a ton of food items.

I don't think I've ever paid attention to the amount of food and drinks in books before.

I think we could also track the descriptions. Or is anyone good at that? I would have a hard time coming up with a description that was anything other than a list of ingredients.

For example Thick Roast Beef Sandwich with Carmelized Onions and gooey cheese.

I would have said roast beef sandwich with onion and cheese...

Let's say I'm reading a book and the character eats a sandwich. It's described as a "Thick Roast Beef Sandwich with caramelized onions and gooey cheese".

Can that be used for a sandwich or is it only 3 ingredients used for a sandwich?

(I think I almost understand the meals)....

I'm going through and finding the meals in the book I'm reading. he describes them nicely.

chicken tortilla soup topped with diced avocado, shredded monterey jack cheese, a sprinkling of cilantro and spicy tortilla strips

In the spreadsheet I added pg 41 - soup and then used this as the description. I think because they describe it that way we can use the whole meal with just the one word. Good thing cause this book only allows for 4 and he cooks a lot.

CRAP. Soup is not an item we can use. I know it also has at least one sandwich and one pasta dish.

Steph wrote: "I'm low key mad at myself though. I found vinegar in a book a few days ago. Got excited then remembered the reread rule is 6 months lol"

I know the feeling. I read a book with a guy who lived in the woods for years and hasn't had "regular" food so they go and try lots of things like burgers and ice cream and all that stuff.

Susan A wrote: "I read (listened) Grabbed 172 pages -- so 4 items from this book

This is what i found

3% turmeric
5% spice
29% egg
31% chicken
31% chicken
31% chili
31% spaghetti
31% beef
31% co..."

When I do hunt challenges I usually search for the words first and then enjoy the reading of the book. Given we will for surely max out on the books each month I don't think we need to worry about missing a general word. The items that would be hard, like vinegar, would be nice to note.

I think we could add the page # next to the item on the Round 1 Books tab.

We don't all need to move items to the official spreadsheet, I figured I would do that. Having the planning spreadsheet allows us to move items around to make the "best" menu for our restaurant.

I'm kinda making this up as I go since I have never played this before.

Susan A wrote: "Uggh....this challenge doesn't start until 1 September 2022, 9pm UTC (5pm EST) which means the book I finished doesn't count. And I have to wait 3 hours to start something."

I know. I have a book I'm going to re-read for hunt and I know it has lots of food in it. I'm waiting to start anything new for 3 more hours.

Susan A wrote: "I think that extra tab should be 160 pages or less

up to 2 scavenger words / spell-it out letters per book >50 pages and <=160 pages
up to 4 scavenger words/ spell-it out letters per book >161 and..."

I fixed it so it's 160 pages. makes more sense with the split.

1. Yes. I thought we could use that to organize and get the best meals out of what we have before we add it to the Official worksheet.

2. I added an overflow tab to the planning sheet for books under 175 pages. I figured we would max out on the books for Sept for sure and probably the other months where we get more for max books. I didn't read as much in August as I usually do, only 22, but I usually do more than that.

Susan A wrote: "“At What the Fork, we wish to offer our personal rendition of gourmet cuisine with an innovative gastronomic take on traditional cooking methods, locally sourced produce and the legacy of our share..."

Awesome!

16 Hours until the challenge starts. I'm so excited. Who wants to write our "blurb" about our restaurant ?

RESTAURANT NAME
At the start of the challenge, name your restaurant and give a (max. 5 sentence) blurb “about” the restaurant. This may just give you an advantage for round 2….

We will also need someone to write descriptions of meals as we create them....who is good at creative writing?